Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and DeterminationApgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
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Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and Determination
Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
Trees -- North America
_Axillary._ Situated in the axil; as a bud, branch, or flower-cluster
when in the axil of a leaf, 14, 26, 30.
_Bark_, 12.
_Bases of leaves_, 21.
_Berry._ Used in this work to include any soft, juicy fruit with several
(at least more than one), readily separated seeds buried in the mass,
27.
_Bipinnate._ Twice-pinnate, 20.
_Bladdery._ Swollen out and filled with air.
_Blade._ The thin, spreading portion, as of a leaf, 19.
_Bract._ A more or less modified leaf belonging to a flower or fruit;
usually a small leaf in the axil of which the separate flower of a
cluster grows, 28.
_Branch._ A shoot or stem of a plant, 11.
_Branching_, general plan of, 29.
_Branchlet._ A small branch.
_Bristle-pointed._ Ending in a stiff, roundish hair, 22.
_Bud._ Undeveloped branch or flower, 30; forms of, 32; bud-scales, 31.
_Bur._ Rough-prickly covering of the seeds or fruit, 27.
_Bush._ A shrub, 11.
_Calyx._ The outer leafy part of a flower, 24.
_Canescent._ With a silvery appearance, 23.
_Capsule._ A dry, pod-like fruit which has either more than one cell,
or, if of one cell, not such a pod as that of the pea with the seeds
fastened on one side on a single line, 28.
_Carpel._ That part of a fruit which is formed of a simple pistil, or
one member of a compound pistil; often shown by a single seed-bearing
line or part. A fruit has as many carpels as it has seed-bearing lines
on its outer walls, or as it had stigmas when it was a pistil, or as it
had leaves at its origin.
_Catkin._ A scaly, usually slender and pendent cluster of flowers, 26,
28.
_Ciliate._ Fringed with hairs along its edge.
_Cleft._ Cut to about the middle, 22.
_Cluster._ Any grouping of flowers or fruit on a plant, so that more
than one is found in the axil of a leaf, or at the end of a stem, 26.
_Complete._ Having all the parts belonging to an organ; a _complete
leaf_ has blade, leafstalk, and stipules, 19; a _complete flower_ has
calyx, corolla, stamen, and pistil, 24.
_Compound._ Composed of more than one similar part united into a whole;
a _compound leaf_ has more than one blade, 19.
_Conduplicate._ Folded on itself lengthwise, 33.
_Cone._ A hard, scaly fruit, as that of a pine-tree, 28.
_Conical._ With a circular base and sloping sides gradually tapering to
a point; more slender than pyramidal.
_Convolute._ In a leaf, the complete rolling from edge to edge, 34.
_Cordate._ Heart-shaped, the stem and point at opposite ends, 21.
_Coriaceous._ Leathery in texture or substance.
_Corolla._ The inner, usually the bright-colored, row of floral leaves,
often grown together, 24.
_Corymb._ A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster; in a strict use it is
applied only to such clusters when the central flower does not bloom
first. See _cyme_, 26.
_Crenate._ Edge notched with rounded teeth, 22.
_Crenulate._ Finely crenated, 22.
_Crisped._ Having an undulated or curled edge.
_Cross-section of wood_, 35.
_Cuneate._ Wedge-shaped, 21.
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